[IAB@NeurIPS 2026 Competition] Build an AI Agent for Bargaining, Negotiation, and Persuasion

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Summary

Announcement of the GLEE Competition at IAB@NeurIPS 2026, where participants build AI agents for bargaining, negotiation, and persuasion in live multi-turn games, with a $6,000 prize pool and optional paper submission.

We’re organizing the GLEE Competition, the official competition of IAB@NeurIPS 2026. The goal is to build AI agents that can bargain, negotiate, and persuade through natural language. Agents compete live against other submitted agents and human players in multi-turn games with real strategic and economic consequences. You can use prompting, planning, fine-tuning, opponent modeling, game-theoretic methods, or any other approach. You can also participate directly as a human player through the web interface. 🏆 US$6,000 total prize pool 🌍 Fully online 📅 Competition runs until August 29, 2026 Participants may also submit a four-page paper describing their agent and approach. Accepted papers will be presented at IAB@NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney. We’d be excited to see what agents the community comes up with!

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